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Greetings and Salutations!
Well I hope people are pleased with the beginning of the Library. I haven’t even really gotten a full grip on just -how much shit- I’ve accumulated\/stored over the past few years.

Crawling through 4tb of ‘stuff’ is a bit of a slog

Especially when I have to do it bit-by bit …
Or would that be ‘byte by byte’?
Gah! John Wilder levels of humor?
I must <\/strong>be losing it.

Either way, the Smoke recibees are now non-password locked. I completely forgot about that. My bad. All the rest -should- be good. I mean hey… One oops out of how much so far? Not a bad track record FWIW IMO.

Now…the Tactical Hermit put it up on his place, and used and sent me a magnificent<\/strong> logo that I’m going to use myself as the root on the shoulder of this place. It too is a work-in-progress, so please bear that in mind. I’m no code-monkey by far and it takes me a while to figure a LOT of this stuff out.

Other mindful\/needful things… hmmn

Silver has broken loose, and looks like it’s going to STAY above the $95 marker for now<\/strong>. There are soooo many things that’re adding to the fun, but one thing I can say is that -I- have no idea what the end game is going to be. I have stated before that holding onto your Silver is a great idea BUT it becomes a question of ‘when’ does one try for the exit(s)?

Many folks keep talking about how precious metals are a ‘safe parking spot’ for your ‘wealth’… While I agree, the issue is that this means one has enough wealth to be able to store some of said-wealth in PMs<\/strong>. Meaning you have enough dough to be ABLE to ‘park’ your $$$ in a metal that literally does nothing<\/strong> UNLESS you sell\/barter\/trade said precious metal.

Which means you still <\/strong>have enough $$$ to keep doing the ‘day-to-day’ purchases, like groceries\/gas\/goodies… the ‘usual’ so to speak.

Most of us normies don’t have enough $$$ to do these things.

Hell… the little I do<\/strong> have has been bought over a number of decades<\/strong> one lil bar\/coin\/oz at a time…or gifted to me by some of you awesome folks… and even then, SOME of those purchases meant that it’d be Ramen for a week until the next paycheck comes in as opposed to NY Strip. Looking back now, I realize I did the right thing.

Now it’s all about the timing.
Because as I stated before, it’s when<\/strong> you leave the party that counts. Personally, I’d prefer to hit the exit BEFORE either the “cops pull a raid on the the “party” which in this case it’d be a nationalization like that Gottverdammt piece of shit Roosevelt did OR the “house” collapses under its own rotten weight, meaning a full on economic collapse.

Because I’d suuuure like to reinvest the fiatbux into something a bit more practical… like the previously mentioned M-249S OR another toy I found again<\/strong> which is actually a wee bit on the inexpensive side (compared to a Semiauto SAW):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They run about $6500 +\/- IF they’re in stock.
The Semiauto SAW? The M-249S Model?
$15k IF you can find it as well…

Now…
Granted…
I would positively love<\/strong> a SAW. That was my primary weapon in the DotMil. I was always<\/strong> a Machine-gunner, be it on the M-60 or the M-249. TBH, I’m sort of glad I got out before the M-240 came out… Don’t get me wrong… it’s a fantastic weapon, especially in its original configuration<\/strong>, meaning with the wood<\/strong> buttstock.

See, part of the requirement for the adoption of the FN-MAG was that the stocks had<\/strong> to be chemical proof as in NCB proof. Hence the plastic stock. Wood unfortunately can absorb a lot of bad things<\/strong> even if it has a nice finish on it. Because of this, the M-240 suffers from some serious nose-heaviness, so badly that I am NOT a fan of it.

In general I personally think they need to go back to the venerable M-60… the new-new<\/strong> version that some companies have made utilizing ALL the new-tech metallurgy and \u00a1SCIENCE!<\/strong> that went into the ‘new builds’ I mean there’s plenty of YouTube vids of guys hammering away, 10,000… 20,000 rounds non-friggin’-stop on one of those new M-60s… without a SINGLE malfunction nor barrel overheat\/meltdown.
Seems it’s the M-60E6<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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